And let's talk about it is
a rule. He was born in forty three and you're
a very memorable story you sure. Yes. When my mother was
in labor. She already had her suit case packed. She said that that she was going to
you know have the baby that night or perhaps the next morning and my father decided
he would stay home with kanji who was three years old three and
a half years old and so my brother who was a year and
a half younger than me had the suitcase and my mother decided to you know it was
time to go. It was about eight or nine o'clock it was really dark outside. But the
hospital's just up the road a block and a half away. And so. Aki carried
a suitcase and my mother being done me. And every so many steps she would have to
stop to take
a deep breath. We didn't have any telephones in camp and. My mother said the doctor
said it was not going to be
a difficult and they're free. So just get to the hospital in plenty of time because
she already had three children she knew what the signs were and the labor pains
where she would be do something for herself and then she decided I know
sometimes that she wasn't taking
a breath she would be rubbing her back and then we'd stop you know for her. But she
never flinched. She never cried and we just kept going and it was uphill I
remember that and she would lean on us and she was so cheerful she was not angry or
upset my brother and I were the ones we wanted to her to hurry up and get up there
so we could go back hoping. But so we took her to the hospital and red to make sure
that she had registered and she just waved goodbye to us and said everything was
going to be OK and then the next morning an ambulance driver came down and he had
no patients in the ambulance but he drives down to announce to us that
a so had been born. Before she was in labor. I could not go up there to get the
ambulance to come to because it was going to be
a normal uneventful delivery. So
when I had my first child. I certainly appreciated what my mother went through and
how stoic she was and felt. But the biggest disappointment was
that I didn't have
a baby sister. It's the baby brother again. But I saw you with the baby in
the better. My mother nursed him so it was you know. It wasn't too hard and
they did have a system where an older woman not
a full fledged nurse but she would come. I think she came every day for about she
stayed in the hospital for at least
a week. And then they brought her home in the ambulance and then. Oh
she came to wash the diapers and make sure that he had enough diapers because I
couldn't do it all by myself and then I think she came to help with the laundry for
maybe four weeks but by the time he was five or six weeks old my mother was doing
everything she was doing before he was born of course I was helping and I wasn't in
school because he was in born in June July and August hard time for me.
And doing
a lot of the laundry. Did she do much for
you or did you use formula do. I don't remember
a formula. I know that does she breastfed kanji until he was almost
a year old so I think she did the same thing with the. A's so my MIL it's the thing
that concerned me the most that we had enough dry diapers. Because when winter came
along it was hard to dry the diapers that work disposable diapers at that time. And
so that was my responsibility make sure there are enough diapers at least four or
five. Yes.